Improvement in names



J. M. LASATER.

Hame.

No. 200,462. Patented Feb. 19,1878.

ATTORNEYS.

PLPEIERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPNEH. WASHINGTON. D O.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. LASATER, OF MANCHESTER, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR TO B. L. LASATER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT lN HAM ES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 200,462, dated February 19, 1878; application filed October 29,1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. LASATER, of Manchester, in the county of Coffee and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hames and Sectional Rocking Collars, of which the following is a specification Figure 1 is a front view of my improved hames and collar. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4. are sections on lines as w and y 3 respectively, of Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention is an improvement in the class of collars in which short bearing-pads are hinged to the hames in such a manner as to have an oscillating movement vertically thereon, as shown in Patent N 0. 160,318. The improvement relates to the construction and arrangement of the parts by which the bearin g-pads are attached to the hames, as hereinafter described.

The hames A A are shown connected at the top by a strap, a, passing through a neckbearing block, a and at the bottom by a hinged and slotted metallic plate, a and spring-catch a. The oscillating bearing-pads B are hinged to the hames A A by means of a metallic strap, E, applied to the hames, a plate, C, attached to the bearing-pads B, and a pivot-bolt, D, the outer end of which is formed into a trace-hook. The said pi vet-bolt is inserted through the socket or long bearing a of plate C and the ears or projecting parallel ends of strap E. That portion of the pivot-bolt which comes opposite the side of the hames is screw-threaded, and fits in a groove or open socket formed in the face of a block, F, which is attached to the hames between the ears of strap E. A screw-thread is out in said groove, so that, in securing the bearing-pads to the hames, the pivot-bolt is screwed to its place, and cannot be withdrawn except by screwing it out.

This construction and arrangement of parts constitute a simple but strong connection between the bearing-pads and hames, and enable them to be easily detached when occasion requires.-

What I claim is- In combination with the hames and bearingpads, the block F, having a threaded facer groove, the metallic hame-strap E, the long bearing-plate C, and the combined pivot-bolt and trace-hook D, having a portion of its shank screw-threaded, all as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

JAMES MITCHELL LASATER.

Witnesses F. P. TROTT, H. T. THOMAS. 

